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Frank Aaltonen

• Highlights in the History of the United Co-operative Society of Maynard
• Looking Back After 25 Years

Alma Abell

• Finns in Douglas County

G. A. Aho

• The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran National Church of America

William R. Aho

• Is Sisu Alive and Well Among Finnish-Americans? (pdf) (William R. Aho)

V. S. Alanne

• Finnish Co-operative Boarding Houses and Hotels in United States and Canada

Theodore Anderson

• Finnish Baptist Work in America
• History of the Baptist Mission Union - 1926-40

Carlton E. Appelo

• Barr-Johnson-Hill Post No. 111, American Legion

Jerry Apps

• Ethnic History and Beaty of Old Barns (pdf) (University of Wisconsin-Extension)

Helen Babson

• The Finns in Lanesville, Massachusetts

J. I. Berg

• Historical Glimpses of the Baptist Mission Union of America - 1901-1925

Debra E. Bernhardt

• We Knew Different: The Michigan Timber Worker's Strike of 1937 (Ralph Secord Press)

Marianne Blomqvist

• Finland-Swedish Surnames in America

E. Richard Bowen

• A Century of Lutheranism in Conneaut, Ohio

G. B.

• Eastern Bothnians in East Tawas, Michigan (SFHS)

Aino M. Carlson

• American-Finnish Directory of Palm Beach County and Vicinity

Sue Coleman

• Finns in Fitchburg

John Daniels

• The Finns in Fitchburg

Darrell H. Davis

• The Finland Community, Minnesota

Richard M. Dorson

• Finns

Marjorie Edgar

• Finnish Charms and Folk Songs in Minnesota
• Finnish Folk Songs in Minnesota

Audra Emerson

• Finnish People Emigrated to Better Land -- Friendship, Maine (Franco-American Women's Institute)

Maria Jarlsdotter Enckell

• Alaska's Second Evangelical Lutheran Parish, 1900-1918. Six Swedish Augustana Synod Pastors Pick Up the Helm of Their Three Russian Era Predecessors, Serving in Douglas, Territory of Alaska
• Commonly Known Finnish and Baltic Names Found in the Index to Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths in the Archives of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church in Alaska 1816-1866
• The Finnish Migration to and from Russian Alaska and the Pacific Siberian Rim 1800-1900 (Institute of Migration)

Rafael Engelberg

• Finnish Emigration to the United States and Canada

Dick & Nancy Erickson

• "Swede-Finn Farmstead Listed on U.S. National Register" (SFHS)

Alfred Haapanen

• The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (The Suomi Synod)
• Our Church. Suomi Synod. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

David Halttunen

• The Ev. Lutheran Church 1891 to 1951

Arne Halonen

• Minnesota's Help to Finland

Lauri L. Hannula

• The Story of the Finns in America

Mary Alice Hansen

• Sjoblom's Book Touches on Founding of Larsmont... & says Again, "The Fishing Life" Was No Breeze

JoAnn Hanson-Stone

• Work, Family & Community Builders Finnish Immigrant Women on the Homestead (1895-1945) (Institute of Migration)

Taisto Hayrynen

• "From the Anvil of Winneboujou...". A Story of a Valley

Lydia I. Holmes

• John and Tyra
• Order of Runeberg, Lodge No. 8, Dollar Bay, Michigan
• This is Dollar Bay, Michigan

Armas K. E. Holmio

• A Chronicle of the Bethany Evangelical Lutheran Church. Covington, Michigan

Edward J. Isaac

• A Brief History of the College

C. Evert Johnson

• Swede-Finns in Mason County, Michigan (SFHS)

Elvira T. Johnson

• Golden Harvest. The Story of Bethel [Duluth, MN]

Chris Julin

• The Other Lynching in Duluth (Minnesota Public Radio)

Wayne Kallio & Arthur Salminen

• A Short Historical Sketch of Salem National Lutheran Church 1921-1951 [Detroit, Michigan]

Doug Karttunen

• Green, Michigan and the Kaukas Connection [Part 1]
• Green, Michigan and the Kaukas Connection [Part 2]
• St. Michael's Finnish Lutheran Church, Kingsford, Michigan

F. W. Kaskinen

• 10 Years of the 75 [Zion Lutheran Church, Astoria, OR]

Urho Kekkonen

• Athletic Relations Between the United States and Finland

Reino Kero

• American Technology in Finland before World War I (1)
• American Technology in Finland before World War I (2)
• The Background of Finnish Emigration
• The Character and Significance of Migration from Finland to North America
• Child Mortality in the Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio Finnish American Immigrant Community
• Emigration of Finns from North America to Soviet Karelia in the Early 1930's
• Finnish Immigrant Culture in America
• Finnish Immigrants in the United States
• From Soldier of Fortune to Newspaperman: The Story of Alexander Leinonen
• The Return of Emigrants from America to Finland
• The Roots of Finnish-American Left-Wing Radicalism
• The Social Origins of the Left-Wing Radicals and 'Church-Finns' among Finnish Immigrants in North America

Samuel Koenig

• The Finns

Olavi Koivukangas

• A Coal Mine Exploded in Scofield, Utah, on May Day 1900 (Institute of Migration)
• What is a Finntown? (Institute of Migration)

John I. Kolehmainen

• America's Outstanding Retail Cooperative
• Finland's Agrarian Structure and Overseas Migration
• The Finnicisation of English in America
• Finnish Immigrants and a "Frii Kontri"
• Finnish Lutherans in Ohio, 1871-1937
• Finnish Newspapers and Periodicals in Michigan
• Finnish Newspapers in Ohio
• Finnish Overseas Emigration from Arctic Norway and Russia
• The Finnish Pioneers of Minnesota
• Finnish Surnames in America
• Finnish Temperance Societies in Minnesota
• The Finns
• Founding of the Finnish Settlements in Ohio
• In Praise of the Finnish Backwoods Farmer
• The Inimitable Marxists: The Finnish Immigrant Socialists
• The Language Press and the Temperance Society
• The North Star Cooperative
• Origin of the Finns in the Western Reserve
• The Retreat of Finnish
• A Study of Marriage in a Finnish Community
• Stumps and Boulders: The First Encounter
• To the American Co-operative Movement: A Timely Warning

Jouni Korkiasaari

• Finnish North Americans today (pdf) (Institute of Migration)

Auvo Kostiainen

• Contacts Between the Finnish Labour Movements in the United States and Canada
• A Dissenting Voice of Finnish Radicals in America: The Finnish Formative Years of Sosialisti-Industrialisti in the 1910s
• Features of Finnish-American Publishing
• Finnish-American Workmen's Associations
• The Finns and the Crisis Over 'Bolshevization' in the Worker's Party, 1924-25
• For or Against Americanization? The Case of the Finnish Immigrant Radicals
• New Forms or Old Traditions? On the Festivities of the Finnish-Americans
• On the Footsteps of the Delaware Finns and John Morton: An Interpretation of the Finnish-American History by Salomon Ilmonen
• Radical Ideology vs. Ethnic Social Activities: The Finnish-Americans and the Communist Party of the United States, 1923-1932
• Santeri Nuorteva and the Origins of Soviet-American Relations
• To Be or Not To Be - An American, a Finn or a Finnish American?
• Turbulent Times: The Last Years of Santeri Nuorteva in America, 1918-1920
• Work People's College: An American Immigrant Institution

James Kurtti

• Finnish and Sami Settlement in Michigan's Copper Country (scandinavica.com)

Patricia Latimer

• Finns in America

Donald Laurila

• From Lappajärvi to Michigan. Lyyti Huhtala Laurila. My Mother

Pär-Erik Levlin

• The Emigration from Ostrobothnia

Mary Losure & Dan Olson

• Finland Was a Poor Country (Minnesota Public Radio)

Roland Lovstad (ed.)

• St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Esko Minnesota

Julius Lukkarila

• History of the Bethany Lutheran Church [Ashtabula, Ohio]

John Manni

• Pioneer Life in Carlton County
• Reminiscences of the History of Kalevala District

Ken Marder

• Kaleva History

William Marttila

• The First Quarter of a Century

Larry T. Maxim

• 100 Years of Logging at Deep River

W. R. Mead

• A Finnish Settlement in Central Minnesota

Joan A. Metzger

• The Finnish Community of DeKalb, Illinois

Lu Murto, Hilma Lindberg, Ann Aho & Nestor Lannot

• Fifty Years of Word and Sacraments

Anders M. Myhrman

• The Finland-Swedes and Their Cultural Organizations in America
• The Finland-Swedes in Duluth, Minnesota

Juha Niemelä

• Finnish American Songs (Institute of Migration)

Clemens Niemi

• Americanization of the Finnish People in Houghton County, Michigan

Leslie E. Niemi

• A Brief History of Bethany Lutheran Church, Republic, Michigan

W. John Niemi, Mrs.

• The History of Our Church [Rockport, Massachusetts]

Walter & Esther Nisula

• Uljas Koitto Temperance Society. History & Photos (UKTS)

Aina Maki Nyman

• Waiting To Go To America

Charles Närä

• Highlights from the History of Mass, St. Paul's Lutheran Congregation

George V. Ojajarvi

• Historical Review of the Congregation of Faith Lutheran Church on Its Sixty-fifth Anniversary 1895-1960 [Conneaut, OH]

K-G Olin

• The Cabin Boy Who Became a Multimillionaire
• The Cabin Boy Who Became a Multimillionaire. Part Two of Two
• Finns in the Gold Rush (K-G Olin)
• Over 200 Swedish Ostrobothnian Immigrants Lived in Telluride of the Gold Rush
• The Swede-Finns in Telluride. Over 200 Swedish Ostrobothnian Immigrants Lived in Telluride of the Gold Rush (K-G Olin)
• Telluride's Swede Finn Hall Lives Again
• Vörå Man Martyred at Telluride
• When Finlanders Ruled Alaska (K-G Olin)

Erick Pellinen

• Memoranda of St. Mark's Nascent Days [Warren, Ohio]

June Pelo

• Backa - Bäckman (SFHS)
• Children of Labor (SFHS)
• Finland-Swedes in America (SFHS)

Teuvo Peltoniemi

• Finnish Utopian Settlements in North America (pdf) (www.sosiomedia.fi)

Liisa Penner

• The Finns in Astoria, Oregon
• River's End. Mishaps on the Lower Columbia River in the 1880s and 1890s

Elin J. Pitkanen

• The First Finnish Methodist Congregation in United States

Kent Randell

• Finglish (pdf)

Mika Rantanen

• Pastors on the New Continent in Socialist Caricatures (Institute of Migration)
• Plump Director of Souls - or just Bolstering up the Class Society (Institute of Migration)

George Einar Ray

• The Finns in the United States

Merle A. Reinikka

• Cross-country Odyssey of Astoria's Early Finns
• Finnish Oystermen on Shoalwater Bay
• Oregon's First Finnish Consul

Mika Roinila

• Finnish Ethnicity in the State of Virginia (Institute of Migration)
• Finnish Sailors and Soldiers in the American Civil War (Institute of Migration)

Joseph S. Roucek

• American Finns

Saronne Rubyan-Ling

• The Michigan Copper Strike of 1913 - a fire in Calumet, MI. which claimed 74 lives including 60 children, made the striking miners there national headline news (History Today)

Horace H. Russell

• The Finnish Farmers in America

Selma Siiri Sahlman

• The Finnish Language in the United States

C. J. Silfversten

• Brief History of Lodge No. 21 [Duluth, MN]
• History of the Bethel Lutheran Church [Duluth, MN]

Helvie & Elsie Silver

• History of Zion Lutheran Church [Astoria, OR]

Taru Spiegel

• The Finns in America (Library of Congress)

John Stierna

• Juntunens in North America (Juntusten sukuseura ry)

Chris Susag

• Ethnic Symbols: Their Role in Maintaining and Constructing Finnish American Culture (Institute of Migration)

Savele Syrjala

• Highlights of the Story of Finns in Fitchburg

J. F. Thaden

• Finnish Farmers in Michigan

Katri Tiikkala

• Home of the Finnish Bethel Congregational Church, Waldo Pl. and Hamilton Ave. Englewood, N. J.

Elias Tobenkin

• The Finns Way And What We Learn From It

Jenni Tuominen

• An Introduction to Finglish (University of Tampere)

Martti Turunen

• Helsinki University Choir in America

John W. Unis

• Historical Milestones [Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, Olympia, Washington]

Eugen Van Cleef

• The Finn in America
• Finnish Population Movement in Ohio
• The Finns in Ohio
• The Finns of the Pacific Coast of the United States, and Consideration of the Problem of Scientific Land Settlement
• The Finns on Cape Cod
• Finns in the United States and Canada
• The Old World in the New
• The Problem of Scientific Settlement as Illustrated by the Finns

Timothy Laitila Vincent

• New York City Passenger Manifests of SS Titanic Survivors Rescued by the SS Carpatia (Institute of Migration)

Keijo Virtanen

• The Finns in the United States. The Project on Finnish Immigration of the Michigan Historical Collections
• The Influence of the Automotive Industry on the Ethnic Picture of Detroit, Michigan, 1900-1940
• Labor Migration Ambivalence: Adaption of the Finns to the American Society. Their Integration and Impact in Finland after Return
• The Migration of Finnish-Americans to Florida after World War II
• Sports and Gymnastics as Part of Immigrant Culture Before World War II
• Urban America and the Finnish Communities of Detroit and Chicago

Martin Wallenius

• World War II Gift Parcels to Finland (SFHS)

John Wargelin

• The Americanization of the Finns
• Finnish Americans
• The Finns in Michigan

Hans R. Wasastjerna

• History of the Finns in Minnesota (The History Museum of East Otter Tail County)
• The Trip

Norman Westerberg

• The Changing Finnish Americana (Institute of Migration)

Lenore Williams

• Finn Town (SFHS)

Leonard S. Wilson

• Eben: A Finnish Community in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan

William Wolkowich-Valkavičius

• Immigrant Population Patterns of Finns, Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians in the U.S. Federal Census of 1930 (Lituanus)

Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch

• Swedish Finn Descendants in North America: Creating Cultural Identity - "American Plus" (pdf) (Åbo Akademi University)

Unknown Writers

• A Brief Historical Sketch [Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Calumet, Michigan]
• A Brief History of St. James [Rudyard, Michigan]
• A Review of History of the Trinity Lutheran Evangelical Church, Trout Creek, Michigan
• A Short Historical Sketch of St. John's Ev. Lutheran Church [Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan]
• [American Relief Administration]
• The Apostolic Lutheran Congregation of Detroit
• Bethlehem Congregation [Detroit, Michigan]
• Civic and Political Activities of the Finnish People of Quincy [Massachusetts]
• Early New Jersey Immigrant Hilding Widjeskog Becomes Author
• Emigration from Finland to America
• The Finn as a Farmer and as a Citizen
• Finnish Scientist on Research Mission in America
• The Finns in America
• The Finns in America. The First Settlers
• Golden Anniversary. The Kingston Redeemer Church. 1904-1954 [Minnesota]
• Hanko Remembers the Epoch When Emigrants Traveled to America
• Historical Sketch of St. John's 1914-1964 [Detroit, Michigan]
• History of the Church [Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Church, Wing, North Dakota]
• History of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church (www.stjohnsudbury.org)
• History in Short of the Valon Tuote Temperance Society of Virginia [Minnesota]
• Phases of the Commemorative Church [Kaleva, Michigan]
• A Sketch of the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of Conneaut [Ohio]
• The Story of Our Church [Morgan Avenue Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, Minnesota]
• The Story of the First 25 Years
• Suomi's Archives Are Praised
• St. Johns Lutheran Church. Detroit, Michigan
• Twenty-five Years of Co-operation in Superior, Wisconsin

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